What I read
In IVF egg donor use rises sharply, HFEA figures show (2018). From the information provided by Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), They find that number of utilization of donated eggs in IVF(In vitro fertilization) become higher in every year. HFEA stated that they are higher in awareness of eggs donation ,and there are more recipients that required donated eggs like homosexual couple and old women. Cathy Nicholson ,one of the donor, said that she already donated five times and continuing to donate her eggs annually.Also, Amanda Mitcheson, on of the recipient, said that she received donated egg from UK and found that it was a gift to have his son from that.One egg-recruiting company in UK said that now people are more likely to aware that their fertility is something limited.
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My response
A reason behind what I have chosen this article to write about is that I am a veterinarian who working with IVF in livestock everyday which the principle is familiar with human IVF. But It is easier in livestock to get donated eggs because we don't actually care whether they want to donate or not; if we have a chance to take eggs from them we just do it or sometime we wait at the slaughter house to get ovaries, and take those eggs out. After that, we freeze them in liquid nitrogen, and when we want to do IVF we pick one egg to laboratory and follow the process until we get an embryo. There are some specific requirements from the farmer that want to have an elite cattle breed embryos from Europe, in that case we would be more careful because one embryo can be up to sixty thousands bath or more ,so it is more like IVF process in human which require a lot of money and efforts.
According to the article, IVF in human is now becoming popular since many people currently face the problem of low fertility or unable to have child by themselves such as in old women or same sex couples. It is great to know that now people have more awareness of eggs donation and the number is exponentially increase overtime which mean there can be hope for people that need it.From my experience, there is one of my relatives who was suffering from infertility and desperately want to have a child. She said to me that people take for granted about having children, but for those who has some problem with reproductive system, it is like a gift for them to have just one child. She tried so many ways to fix her problem but turned out that any of it worked. Finally, she got donated eggs from her friend and fulfilled her desire with ecstatic feeling.
In the near future, Donation of eggs maybe something ordinary and people may no longer depend on their couple to have a child. As the technology developed, we might give birth to ourselves without pregnant by the method called cloning. But, there are still lots of ethics that have to be taken in account.
According to the article, IVF in human is now becoming popular since many people currently face the problem of low fertility or unable to have child by themselves such as in old women or same sex couples. It is great to know that now people have more awareness of eggs donation and the number is exponentially increase overtime which mean there can be hope for people that need it.From my experience, there is one of my relatives who was suffering from infertility and desperately want to have a child. She said to me that people take for granted about having children, but for those who has some problem with reproductive system, it is like a gift for them to have just one child. She tried so many ways to fix her problem but turned out that any of it worked. Finally, she got donated eggs from her friend and fulfilled her desire with ecstatic feeling.
In the near future, Donation of eggs maybe something ordinary and people may no longer depend on their couple to have a child. As the technology developed, we might give birth to ourselves without pregnant by the method called cloning. But, there are still lots of ethics that have to be taken in account.
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My question
What do you think about having children from donated eggs ? Does it cause problems with that children when they grow up and realize that their true mother is someone else?____
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Reference
- IVF egg donor use rises sharply, HFEA figures show. (2018, March 21). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43458405
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ReplyDeleteAccording to your article, it is interesting that you bring cow's ovary out!! or do I misunderstand???
ReplyDeleteI had never planed to have a child until I see my friends have married and have their child. I don't sure that is a natural felling of my age or I am maturing. However, I may not have my own child and I plan to adopt some orphans. I don't think about using donated egg because if you want to have a child you should have an uterus but I, a single man, don't have uterus haha. Nonetheless, I also want someone to have a child together na. Exactly, I don't care who my child are or come from, but I want to grow up a child to be a good man. This is a mandate of us , human, to nourish a good citizen to do a great thing for our socia
From your response, I understand about this new advance technology. As I am one of the health care provider, egg donation and ovum pick up are widely used in order to resolve infertility problems. It is the best strategy to help people from the suffering. However, it might be the ethic problems in the future. That might not affect too much in other countries but in Thailand I afraid about the regulations.
ReplyDeleteFrom my aspect, I have seen a lot of people feel upset when they cannot give a birth and have the children. Therefore, this method can support them. I think if they can raise their children to be good human, it does not matter to use IVF method. About the children topic, they might think about their real mother if their appearance are not similar to mothers, but it is not a big deal, if they love and have strong bonding enough.
I agree with you that this solution with helps a lot of people cannot have child because of health problem. However, we have to keep our eye it because some people use this benefit of high technology in a wrong way. Commercial surrogacy is one of good problem examples.By the way, for the question that will childern have a problem when they know their true mother or not depends on when parents tell them. I think if we old enough almost everyone understand why their parent need to do that.
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